168 Vegetables, preserved in flasks, tins, or bottles. .do 25 169 170 Preserves of fish, shellfish, and mushrooms, prepared in any manner, with the exception of sardines. Preserves of meat, with or without truffles, other than salted meat.......... 172 In larger receptacles 173 Peaches, dried and stoned (descarozados de duraznos) 05 175 Sausages, including Bologna sausages.. Pickles (encurtidos): In bottles... 178 Spices of all kinds, ground 197 198 Ginger (maqui)... Apples, pears, or cherries, dried, including the weight of receptacles.. ..do .08 .do .05 199 200 Honey of all kinds.. Mazacote (a preserve made of brown sugar). 201 Millet .03 203 Lentils Raisins: .04 Aniseed brandy, arrack, cognac, kirsch, rum, and other similar.....do liqueurs, not exceeding 50 C., in wood or demijohns. .28 237 Absinthe, not exceeding 68 C., in bottles of more than liter up to 1 liter. Bottle .34 238 Aniseed brandy, arrack, cognac, kirsch, rum, and other similar ....do .33 Byrrh: 239 In wood or demijohns 240 Bitters, Angostura, not exceeding 68° C.: 241 242 In bottles...... In bottles of more than liter up to 1 liter In half bottles 254 Geneva, aromatic, Old Tom or Schnapps, not exceeding 50° C., in .....do bottles of 1 liter. .33 263 264 Rum: In bottles not exceeding 50° C.. 265 266 Wines: All kinds, in bottles. 255 Geneva and Schnapps, not exceeding 50° C., in wood or demijohus.... Liter 256 257 258 259 260 261 262 Grappa: In bottles..... In wood or demijohns Sirups, in bottles.. Liqueurs, not exceeding 50° C. : In bottles of 1 liter. In wood or demijohns. Punch, in bottles Drinks: In bottles.. With soda Soda water, in bottles of 1 liter. Ginger ale, in bottles of 1 liter 267 Port, Sherry, Madeira, Hock, Château-Margaux, Château-Laffitte, "Carlon," "Priorato," dry, common claret, “Barbera," and other .....do When the dry extract exceeds 50 per cent the wine shall be NOTE. When the wines and other beverages are of a strength No. Goods subject to specific duties-Continued. Articles. Unit. Rate of duty. 282 283 284 285 Paper: MISCELLANEOUS ARTICLES-continued. Colored, of all kinds, blotting paper, brown paper, straw paper, The under-mentioned goods shall continue to be liable to the Collars of cotton or linen, or of these materials mixed, for men and 286 Cuffs of cotton or linen, or of these materials mixed ART. 4. Goods and products burdened with import duties by the present law shall in addition be subject to a supplementary duty of 2 per cent ad valorem. for goods paying 10 per cent or more and of 1 per cent ad valorem for articles paying less than 10 per cent. EXPORT DUTIES. ART. 5. The following products and manufactured articles of the country shall on exportation be liable to a duty of 4 per cent ad valorem: ART. 6. Scrap iron and steel shall pay a duty of 5 pesos gold per 1,000 kilograms. ART. 7. Firms importing or exporting goods, articles, fruits, and products of all kinds, also firms effecting the transit of goods to foreign countries, shall be liable to a statistical tax of 1 per 1,000 on the value of their transactions, irrespective of whether the goods, etc., are subject to the payment of customs duties or not. This tax shall be entered in the different clearance documents by the customs and be collected at the same time as the other duties. 1. Cork (bark or slabs). ARTICLES ADMITTED FREE OF DUTY. 2. Animals of all kinds, provided that they have been previously examined by a veterinary surgeon. 3. Sand and stone, imported on vessels as neces sary ballast and destined to municipalities. 4. Vessels, complete or in sections. 5. Sugar cane. 6. Coal and charcoal, for fuel. 24. Steam gins, with or without motors, oilcloth or tarpaulins, and extra parts thereof. 7. Casks of wood or iron, put together or not, 25. Machines for sugar refineries. used as receptacles. 14. Sheep dip of all kinds. 26. Serum for the preventive and curative treatment of infectious diseases, as well as requisites for applying the same. 27. Materials destined to works of public health or to works on waterways of provinces. 28. Furniture and implements of immigrants, included in their baggage. 29. Coin (specie). 30. Naptha and crude petroleum, and carburine. 32. 33. 15. Fruits and vegetables, fresh, excepting 35. Silver, in bars or ingots. 36. Plants, live, imported conformably to the law No. 2384. ART. 9. Sole leather, tanned leather, and other producis of the country, not specially taxed in the present law, may be exported free of duty. ART. 10. The executive may accord no exceptions other than those established in this law or in special laws. ARGENTINE TARIFF CHANGES. Minister Buchanan sends from Buenos Ayres, under date of February 15, 1899, copy of the Argentine tariff for 1899. But few changes of importance to our trade, he says, have been made in the "aforos," or custom-house valuations, of articles upon which ad valorem taxes are calculated. One of the most prominent changes of interest to the United States is that reducing the valuation of spruce pine from 35 to 25 cents per cubic meter, the change resulting in a net reduction in duty of $1.39, gold, per 1,000 feet. Mr. Buchanan continues: The duty and "aforo" on canned fruits and vegetables have been raised this year, in accordance, no doubt, with the demands made upon Congress by the local canning factories. Unfortunately, the general tariff on this class of goods injures articles that might be imported without detriment to local industries. For instance, canned corn and canned strawberries are taxed alike-25 cents per kilogram (2.2046 pounds). The latter product may be able to support this tax; but, as corn is not packed here, canned corn is practically debarred from the market. Differences in customs valuation of Argentina between the laws of 1898 and 1899. |